Yesterday the very first COVID-19 study using pre-infection vitamin D status was released as a preprint.* Using data from the electronic health records of patients treated at University of Chicago Medicine, of the 4,314 people who were tested for COVID-19, 499 had their vitamin D status measured in the year before the COVID-19 test, excluding …

In an April 16 YouTube video titled “Vitamin D may reduce susceptibility to COVID-19-associated lung injury,” Dr. Rhonda Patrick of Found My Fitness suggested that older people have more severe COVID-19 outcomes than younger people and males have more severe outcomes than females because each of these groups has lower ACE2. This was in the …

A preprint* released yesterday by collaborators from the medical schools of Stanford, Columbia, University of Minnesota, UC San Diego, and Taiwan’s China Medical School provided the first evidence of the expression of ACE2 in the upper respiratory tract among humans with different risk factors and found that it is slightly lower in those using ACE …

In response to yesterday’s update about glutathione and COVID-19, a number of questions came in on social media about whether glutathione can be absorbed intact, whether supplements need to be liposomal, and whether N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) would be just as effective or even better. Glutathione is absorbed intact in laboratory animals, and crosses human intestinal cells …

The New York Post reported this Saturday on the case of a second year medical student at Sophie Davis/CUNY School of Medicine who apparently cured his mom’s COVID-19-related respiratory distress with 2,000 milligrams of glutathione. Josephine Bruzzese, 48, developed symptoms of COVID-19 on March 22. “She was so short of breath she couldn’t speak,” the …